Ore-13
Ore-13 is a substance seemingly found only on Earth. It was discovered by a Decepticon infiltration team led by Starscream, who, after exhausting a vein of the ore beneath the original command bunker in Nebraska, built a second command bunker over a richer vein in Oregon.
Ore-13 can be purified, in the words of Ratchet, into "... baseline Energon, but with a twist." When applied directly to the systems of a Transformer via a modified delivery capsule, it grants that Transformer a phenomenal boost in overall capability. Although not enought to give Starscream any apprecialbe edge over Megatron, both Decepticons and Autobots believe Ore-13 could drastically tip the balance of their interstellar conflict.
Unknown to either faction, Ore-13 is an artifical substance created by the Decepticon Shockwave. He seeded a number of worlds with this modified Energon millions of years ago, in preperation for the predicted death of Cybertron. When he arrived on Earth at the end of the last Ice Age to stabalise the Ore before it destroyed the planet, he was ambushed by the Dynobots. With Shockwave now buried somewhere on Earth (possibly in stasis), it is likely that the other seeded worlds were destroyed, making Earth the only source of Ore-13.
